billiards-equipment concern had offered a handsome cash prize for the invention of a cheap and satisfactory substitute for ivory billiard balls.
Although he had adorned the house with many of the finest luxuries available at the time, including numerous televisions, light machines, film projectors and stereo equipment, a billiard table, go-kart track and a bar named the Flying Cow, he did not include a drum kit, he explained: "When we don't record, I don't play".
Mr. Hunt has developed other high-class establishments, including Amsterdam Billiards, a billiard parlor.
Besides expanding Brunswick's boating operations in Europe, Asia and Latin America, McCoy is seeking to mitigate the cyclical nature of the boating industry by focusing growth on exercise equipment, bowling and billiard products, which together make up 19% of sales and tend to have their best sales in winter, when boating is soft.
Ping-Pong and billiard tables are as much recreational equipment as they are props for the draping of languorous limbs in spandex minis (the dress code forbids "excessively baggy clothing").
Billiard balls with legs.
Imagine 2,000 billiard balls merging into one.
Messages from handpainted murals -- Billiard Parlor!
According to Victor Stein, co-author of "The Billiard Encyclopedia: An Illustrated History of the Sport," it traces its origins to Egyptian ground and table games contested in the royal court circa 3300 B.C. "It looked like a sport, but it was actually a magical cult," Mr. Stein had informed me in an interview at nearby Blatt Billiards, a leading equipment maker.
